Leon Ransmeier

Products by Leon Ransmeier

AGL Table GroupLeon Ransmeier

Mattiazzi Chiaro ChairLeon Ransmeier

Mattiazzi Chiaro StoolLeon Ransmeier

Leon Ransmeier believes that "use follows form." As a hands-on designer, Ransmeier works by developing full-scale, usable prototypes. “The only way you can create well-designed objects is by experiencing the objects yourself,” he says.

In 2008 he established Ransmeier Inc., a New York-based industrial design practice. Notable projects include the Chiaro chair for Mattiazzi and the Revolver bar stool for HAY. Ransmeier’s collaboration with industry often results in subtle interventions into the way we perceive and use things.

“The only way you can create well-designed objects is by experiencing the objects yourself.”

- Leon Ransmeier

With his AGL Table Group for Herman Miller, Ransmeier's focus was to bring comfort and refinement to a familiar form: the table surface. Improving on something as seemingly straightforward and ubiquitous as the table involved considering every detail at length.

It is a level of concentration Ransmeier finds very fulfilling. "More often than not, the design process is composed of a general challenge that is broken down into many small endeavors. It's not possible to solve the greater problem at hand without addressing the component tasks. If one cannot enjoy the details, one will never find satisfaction in the whole."